Politics

nobody doubted that the worst of reddit would take over after we left

Reddit is the new Parler

People are shitting on this but have no problem with r/interestingasfuck and r/perfectlycutscreams doing the exact same thing

This is exactly what happened to DIGG* and what's currently happening to twitter.

Conservatives get beaten down by the vast majority of users and get a chip on their shoulder. Then as the site starts to die and the users move elsewhere conservatives jump on the sinking ship and declare their the new captain. They start drilling holes in the sinking ship cause theres nkthing else to do, and eventually realize the echo chamber sucks and then move on to the other social networks that everyone else went to, and the process repeats.

I hope with federation that the cycle doesn't repeat but we'll see.

• DIGG made their big DIGG 4.0 change to overhaul the algorithm because it was being gamed and brigaded by members of conservative forums at the time. It just so happened they did it with a user interface overhaul. For a while, after most everyone moved to reddit, the top posts were mostly conservative stuff.

Hey, you don't see me complaining they stay there and don't migrate to Lemmy. I'm pretty fine with that.

What if, and hear me out on this, you go and start posting a bunch of ai images of trump sucking Putin off. Just a thought.

Wow, absolutely nobody in here gets what they’re doing and just wants to shit on “conservatives”. What they’re doing is what the other mods should also be doing - mod strike! Take down the barriers and let Reddit get overrun with bots, spam, and low-effort posts. If every sub did that instead of the weak-ass “dark for two days guise!” Reddit management would fold immediately.

With this two-days-dark plan, management thinks (correctly?) that they can just wait it out and they win. And they’re probably right. No competent strike ever gives a deadline and expects it to work, that’s absurd. The smarter subs have at least said “at least two days, then we’ll reassess” - that’s the better approach, keep it open-ended.

But the best approach is what /r/conservative seems to be doing, which is just put down their tools and walk the fuck away. Reddit management would have literally no response to that approach if it was the approach taken site-wide.

But whatever, keep shitting on the nazis.

I don't understand the mentality behind this. Is it just a case of "They're doing a thing so we'll do the opposite"? What exactly is the goal here?

Someone throw a padlock on that group to keep them in Reddit.

Wow, and I thought all the subs leaving + shutting down was bad enough. Now, advertisers are going to see this remaining subreddit flooded with racist and bigoted memes no doubt.

An appropriate legacy for the subreddit. Very "on brand." 🤣

Let me know if there's a more appropriate community for this.

Of course

I like what /u/dankmemes is doing: only memes about the API thing.

Conservatives... more like contrarians.

acting in contrary just for the sake of it -yeah sounds like modern american conservatives alright

As always, yucky

Is there a reason why they're doing this? Blackout's not even political. They just want to be contrarian to everything.

$10 says the "special surprise" is a shout out/recruitment post from something like "truth social" (or wherever they hangout nowadays) to go takeover what's left of Reddit.

Since when were they against shitposts?

A lil worried about their "special surprise." What could they even do that would be surprising given the abhorrent stuff that already comes out from that sub?

The enshittification of reddit.

Clown subreddit.

/r/conservative tomorrow be like

so basically, "we mods are boycotting but we can't act like we actually agree with the other protests."

typical conservative contrarian bullshit as always.

Nothing says conservative like being happy about big and sudden changes.